Wow. Day five of 12 Days of Christmas and we’re onto a slightly dangerous, yet far from difficult, treat that will blow everyone away.
Tag / sugar
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and you need to stop eating those stodgy, stale, store-bought marshmallows and make your own!
Picture it now, it’s the first cold snap of the year, you make yourself a rich, comforting hot chocolate to stave off those fears of endless snowstorms and c
Over the last year or so I have put the blog on the shelf for many reasons–for friend-making, for exploring, for love–but absolutely not for anything to do with my feelings about food.
In fact, some of my most treasured new friends love and respect food just as much as I do.
Tonight I’m helping the boys out.
It’s time to retrain my taste buds away from sweet. I’ve realized it’s all that I taste most of the time.
I like chocolate, I like cake, milk (it’s sweet!) and pasta and fruit and bread and…all the foods I eat these days fall into the sweet category.
I can tell it’s happening when I feel hungry 1 hour after a delicious, satisfying meal.
I can tell when I am filled to the gills but am still aching for dessert.
I know even when I convince myself I don’t know what’s wrong.
I can feel it in my gut.
Each Tuesday I will be exploring a new location to satisfy my wanderlust while my feet remain firmly planted on Canadian soil. I’m so excited! I hope you’ll join me in these new adventures.
Call me nuts, but this almond brittle could be my new favourite recipe.
Why, you ask? I’ll tell you. Two words: sugar and almonds. That’s it. Well, not quite. I mean you need a pot, a stove and a cookie sheet but, you see where I’m going with this.
